Best testing a book: Chapter 2: The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included)

November 28, 2012 By 12 Comments

I just got done cleaning up my draft of chapter two of the book. It’s called The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included). Summary below the fold: Richard Dawkins’ Big Bad Quote What do ordinary religious believers believe? The theologian who can’t tell you what he believes What is fundamentalism? Who’s really ignorant about theology? [...]

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The ignorance and absurdity of the champions of left-wing theology

September 14, 2012 By 5 Comments

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book in progress, and also a follow up to this post. It should be obvious by now that it’s possible to believe in a god in the sense that most people mean without being a fundamentalist. Thomas Paine is one example of a person who did exactly that. [...]

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Unorthodox theology

August 29, 2012 By 15 Comments

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book in progress. At this point, a few readers, especially ones with highly unorthodox religious ideas, will cling to the “God I don’t believe in either line.” They might say, “My version of religion doesn’t require believing in miracles or anything superstitious like that!”

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